Favours granted through the use of the St Benedict Medal

[Karenanna]

The St. Benedict medal

The St. Benedict medal is one of the most famous medals in the church. It commemorates St Benedict working miracles through The Sign of the Cross. The medal has a special exorcism blessing against all things coming from the devil and the evil spirits. It also has a special blessing for the sick and a prayer for protection from every kind of calamity.
(Mary Ann)

The devil can’t stand being near this medal. I am preparing a book on miracles and have done a lot of work on it already. It has many stories of the intercession of Our Lord, Our Lady, the saints and The Holy Souls in Purgatory, for my family, friends and acquaintances and favours obtained through devotions such as the Rosary, and various articles as well.

Here are two of the St Benedict (medal) stories, just to give you an idea of the use of this sacramental.

The undesirable Tenants (The St. Benedict Medal)
Therese lived next door to a rental house. Three successive groups of tenants lived in the house. The tenants in each of the three groups were drug addicts. They usually slept all day and stayed up all night disturbing the neighbours with their noisy rowdy parties. The third group of tenants skipped through without paying the rent. Therese’s mother then placed a blessed St. Benedict medal in the foundation of the rental house. From that time onward the tenants who rented the house were much quieter people.

The noisy neighbours (The St. Benedict Medal)
In a similar incident to the previous one, Therese’s mother placed a St. Benedict Medal in the foundations of a rental house across the road from her own home. The tenants in this house used to blast the neighbourhood with unbearably loud music. After the St. Benedict Medal was placed in the foundations, the tenants moved out and quiet peaceful tenants moved into the house.

More of the St Benedict Medal stories (that will be used in the book) are here:

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The Powerful intercession of The Holy Souls in Purgatory for their benefactors

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Each person (who has autism) whose name is sent to be included in this novena will be prayed for regularly by a priest of Lourdes, France at the grotto. Only the first name of the person is needed for the purpose of this novena. Everyone is invited to send names: parents, grandparents, teachers, doctors, aunties, friends, therapists etc.

 

[Klydewannab]

I see that you mentioned that the medal is an exorcism. Here is the prayer (in English). The initials C.S.P.B. stand for Crux Sancti Patris Benedicti–the cross of our Holy Father Benedict. The other letters on the cross stand for the latin initials of this prayer: “May the Holy Cross be my light! Let not the dragon be my guide.” Then around the circle are the latin initials for this prayer: “Begone Satan! Tempt me not with your vanities! What you offer is evil. Drink the poisoned cup yourself!”

 

[Karenanna]

I see that you mentioned that the medal is an exorcism. Here is the prayer (in English). The initials C.S.P.B. stand for Crux Sancti Patris Benedicti–the cross of our Holy Father Benedict. The other letters on the cross stand for the latin initials of this prayer: “May the Holy Cross be my light! Let not the dragon be my guide.” Then around the circle are the latin initials for this prayer: “Begone Satan! Tempt me not with your vanities! What you offer is evil. Drink the poisoned cup yourself!”

Thank you for mentioning this. As well as that (the inscription on the medal), the actual blessing formula that the priest uses, when blessing the medal has an exorcism, a prayer for protection and a prayer for healing for the sick as well.

 

[PoliSciProf]

Gee, Karenana, I certainly appreciate your efforts re the book and I think medals are important sacrementals, but your two examples seem to be *post hoc, ergo propter hoc *fallacies.

 

[Karenanna]

Gee, Karenana, I certainly appreciate your efforts re the book and I think medals are important sacrementals, but your two examples seem to be *post hoc, ergo propter hoc *fallacies.

I am not big on Latin, however I know what fallacies are.
Please kindly translate for me the Latin.

 

[TOP]

Gee, Karenana, I certainly appreciate your efforts re the book and I think medals are important sacrementals, but your two examples seem to be *post hoc, ergo propter hoc *fallacies.

She’s right.

Approved Blessing
of the Medal of St. Benedict
Medals of Saint Benedict are sacramentals that may be blessed legitimately by any priest or deacon – not necessarily a Benedictine (Instr., 26 Sept. 1964; Can. 1168). The following English form may be used.

V. Our help is in the name of the Lord.
R. Who made heaven and earth.

In the name of God the Father + almighty, who made heaven and earth, the seas and all that is in them, I exorcise these medals against the power and attacks of the evil one. May all who use these medals devoutly be blessed with health of soul and body. In the name of the Father + almighty, of the Son + Jesus Christ our Lord, and of the Holy + Spirit the Paraclete, and in the love of the same Lord Jesus Christ who will come on the last day to judge the living and the dead, and the world by fire.
Amen.

Let us pray. Almighty God, the boundless source of all good things, we humbly ask that, through the intercession of Saint Benedict, you pour out your blessings + upon these medals. May those who use them devoutly and earnestly strive to perform good works be blessed by you with health of soul and body, the grace of a holy life, and remission of the temporal punishment due to sin.

May they also with the help of your merciful love, resist the temptation of the evil one and strive to exercise true charity and justice toward all, so that one day they may appear sinless and holy in your sight. This we ask though Christ our Lord.
Amen.

The medals are then sprinkled with holy water.

 

[PoliSciProf]

After this, therefore because of this.

 

[Karenanna]

After this, therefore because of this.

Thank you for the translation of the Latin. I understand what you are saying about the stories. The St Benedict Medal is famous for being the instrument of many favours and miracles similar and even a great deal better than the two examples which I posted to the forum.

The internet is a wonderful resource for those in a hurry. I pasted a copy of the Latin text into the search engine, enclosing them in inverted commas, and found several articles in English which helped me to understand the meaning of the Latin text.

I recommend to anyone interested in learning more about the St Benedict medal and its miracles and favours, a book which Tan Publications distributes entitled “Father Paul of Moll”.

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**Novena to St Philomena the Wonderworker for the healing of autism: **

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Each person, whose name is sent to be included in this novena, will be prayed for on a regular basis by a priest of Lourdes, France. Only the first name of the person is required for the purpose of this novena.